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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- The Fire Fighter
- ISBN
- 0099286408
- EAN
- 9780099286400
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Date of Publication
- 2002-04-04
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Release Title
- The Fire Fighter
- Artist
- Cottam, Francis
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
- N/A
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Fire Fighter
- Item Height
- 199 mm
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Topic
- Books, World War II
- Item Width
- 130 mm
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Product Information
Set in WWII London, in the last months of 1940 when the Blitz and destruction and firebombing were at their worst and morale was at its lowest. A young man, Jack Finlay, is called back from the African front to mastermind the firefighting in a small but crucial area of the City of London, looking after 5 rather mysterious buildings in particular. In the pre-war period he was a legendary firefighter, though his past is rather murky - poor Liverpool Irish Catholic, sent to Borstal for fighting, and generally suspect because of his unnatural interest in fires, thought to be an arsonist. His father was a WWI hero - and one of the beautifully handled themes of the novel is the effect of that war on those who survived to fight another so soon after, and on their sons. Our hero finds himself a pawn in an Intelligence game, and in British Intelligence's attempts to feed false intelligence to the Germans at a crucial point in the war. He falls in love with a young woman who's the curator of one of the buildings which was built by her German (disgraced) architect father - she to is being manipulated (or is she?) and the crisis comes when she is caught in the burning building. With its brilliantly vivid evocation of London in the Blitz, an unusual love story, an emotional heart but a cynical eye, and devastatingly good descriptions of fire (how it moves and works and destroys), this unusual and assured first novel has real appeal for men and women alike.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780099286400
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88751756
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Books, World War II
Book Title
The Fire Fighter
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
199 mm
Item Width
130 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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